The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 74

‘Ah! tell me how I can manage that, and if I have to walk round the whole of Brittany on my bended knees I will do it!’

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, manage, have, walk, do · To what, where: me, that, bended knees, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 tell	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 manage	advmod
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 manage	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 manage	aux
9	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	ccomp
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 manage	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 have	cc
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 have	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	parataxis
16	to	to	PART	_	17 walk	mark
17	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 have	xcomp
18	round	round	ADP	_	20 whole	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 whole	det
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 walk	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Brittany	case
22	Brittany	Brittany	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 whole	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 knees	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 knees	nmod:poss
25	bended	bended	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 knees	amod
26	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 walk	obl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 do	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 do	aux
29	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 walk	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 do	obj
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	manage	can	I	that				vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
3	have a condition, not said to happen	present	I					tree rules
4	walk	to-infinitive	I not said here			my bended knees	round the whole	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round whole=Trajectory
5	do	future	I	power				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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